These pictures show how global warming is affecting a glacier in Iceland The Breidamerkurjokull glacier in Iceland has raced in from the mountains, smothering a shimmering lagoon that sits at the edge of the Atlantic on the country’s south coast Pictured above is the glacier and lagoon in 2002… For 30 years professional photographer Ragnar [...]

When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say. Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. That’s because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global warming’s effects this century could be twice as extreme as estimated just six years ago, scientists reported on Tuesday. Earth’s median surface temperature could rise 9.3 degrees F (5.2 degrees C) by 2100, the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found, compared to a 2003 study that projected a median [...]